Will You Leave a Lasting Impression?

In his research, Dan McAdams focuses on adults who are especially generative, those who are most concerned with the well-being of future generations. Want to know how you’d rate on McAdams’ scale? If you’ve performed the following behaviors once or more during the past two months, you can consider yourself highly generative:

Taught somebody a skill

Did volunteer work for a charity

Told somebody about your childhood

Babysat for someone else’s children

Made a decision that influenced many people

Picked up garbage off the street or some other area that is not your property